Video: NRSC hits Dems over “Recovery Summer”

posted at 2:55 pm on September 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

Anyone with enough business experience knows that the key to keeping customers is to set expectations properly and realistically — and the same holds true for politics. Don’t promise success when you can’t deliver it, and don’t advertise those promises on a wide scale until certainty exists. The NRSC shows how the competition can take advantage when the product doesn’t live up to the hype:

At some point in time, “Recovery Summer” will get its well-earned place among the worst political public-relations drives ever. We usually link it to Gerald Ford’s Whip Inflation Now (WIN) buttons, but this is worse. Ford didn’t promise 500,000 new jobs a month if people wore buttons on their shirts, after all. The only saving grace for the White House is the fact that they made Joe Biden tapdance his way across the country to sell “Recovery Summer” while Barack Obama mainly sat out the summer on vacation.

Every Republican in every district should be asking the voters this question: How WAS your Recovery Summer? Note well the last line of the ad, too.

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TThis has been the worst financial period of my adult life. I never gave anything much thought until the days of Jimmy Carter, but I believe this is worse than the Carter years. At least for a person in their 50s and 60s.
Maybe Republicans drove the car into the ditch, but Obama has driven it off the cliff!

WASHINGTON – The stately White House East Room, home to many a bill signing and ceremonial gathering, becomes a stage Tuesday for pirouettes, jetes, gravity-defying leaps and maybe even some bumps and grinds as Michelle Obama inaugurates a new dance series.

Bishop,it boggles the mind…the CA elite need to go broke or something before they get a clue
cmsinaz on September 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM

Where is the great mass of citizens to drag these scum from office? How badly has America sunk that Boxer hasn’t had to quietly slink off in disgrace with 2% approval and a snowball’s chance in hell of getting reelected? Man, it’s really disheartening to see these criminals hang on year after year.

Like all liberals think…….tell the lies long enough, they will become truth. Obama and the demorats all sing the same song, just different verses. Those idiot conservatives don’t realize what we have done for them, but some of them are starting to figure out what we have done to them.

That is terrible. Why the grainy film treatment? It makes it look way overdone and the facts speak for themselves already. It’s also way too long. Cut it down to 30 seconds. Thats more than enough time to get the point across.

Republicans need to remind voters that the economy was doing just fine until the Democrats took over the House and the Senate in 2006. They want to blame Bush but while the Republicans were in control, the economy was soaring. It IS a congressional election after all.

Every Republican SHOULD be asking that Ed. However, many are getting tangled in non- Federal Government issues like the NY mosque. Whether you agree or disagree with the mosque the fact of the matter is that it is not a campaign issue. We can win this if candidates stay on topic about issues that are not ambiguous in nature: the failure of Obamacare, the economy, wasteful spending, and pretty much every Democratic policy since 2006. Stay on topic GOP. Don’t get tangled in name calling arguments that the Dems resort to when they can’t argue anything else.